题目（英文）A Study on the Cultural Differences of Daily
Greetings between Chinese and English
题目（中文） 中英日常问候语的文化差异研究
Abstract
Greetings are a series of actions, which keep and strengthen relationship of between the two speakers, Greetings has certain functions, referring to set up relationship and delay the relationship. The paper hopes to advance peoples communication in different cultures and language -backgrounds and to get cross-culture communication. The greeting is a very important communicative functions, as the different culture between Chinese and western, greetings are endless and same. This paper study the social functions and the use of greeting ,and discusse two kinds of language of greeting, and points out that the cultural differences between the different cultural background, different modes of thinking, different values for the effect of using language, and illustrate the foreign language learners and users are necessary to language communication for cross-cultural studies, this kind of research helps to promote the different language and culture background of mutual exchanges between people.
Keywords: Daily greetings, culture difference, Chinese culture, English culture culture background
Contents
Abstract 1
Contents 2
1Introduction 3
2 The definition of Greetings 4
3 The differences between Chinese and Western greetings 5
3.1 The difference of meeting with each other 5
3.2 Differences in address terms 7
3.3 Differences in farewell 9
4 The difference between Chinese and Western culture 10
4.1 Historical reasons 10
4.2 Different values 12
5 Conclusion 13
References 14
